The vocabulary scholars use to compare legal systems: legal tradition, legal pluralism, legal culture, legal transplants, the legal origins theory, comparative law and its constitutional and criminal branches, and legal philosophy. A doctrine belongs here when its cited article describes a method or concept of comparative law. It excludes the civil law concepts compared in the next group. A concept belongs here when a comparatist would use it to describe or classify a legal system as a whole, not a rule that decides one kind of dispute inside it.
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Comparative criminal justice (Wikipedia)
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Comparative criminal justice is a subfield of the study of Criminal justice that compares justice systems worldwide.
Comparative law (Wikipedia)
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Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law and legal systems of different countries.
Legal culture (Wikipedia)
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"Comparative legal cultures are examined by a field of scholarship, which is situated at the line bordering comparative law and historical jurisprudence." Lawrence M.
Legal origins theory (Wikipedia)
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The legal origins theory claims that the two main legal traditions or origins, civil law and common law, crucially shape lawmaking and dispute adjudication and have not been reformed after the initial exogenous transplantation by Europeans.
Jurisprudence (Wikipedia)
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Jurisprudence, also known as legal theory or legal science, is the philosophy of law.
Legal pluralism (Wikipedia)
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Legal pluralism is the existence of multiple legal systems within one society and/or geographical area.
Legal tradition (Wikipedia)
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A legal tradition or legal family is a grouping of laws or legal systems based on shared features or historical relationships.
Legal transplant (Wikipedia)
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The term legal transplant was coined in the 1970s by the Scottish legal scholar W.A.J. 'Alan' Watson to indicate the moving of a rule or a system of law from one country to another (A. Watson, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, Edinburgh, 1974).
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